Complex problems are connected with many competing and often conflicting values, interests, and tools. These problems can’t be addressed through simply applying dogmatic principles or a deal-making purely pragmatic approach. Because these problems are interconnected and interdependent, a final solution can’t be pre-specified. Any intervention to a complex problem requires attention to both principles and pragmatism. […]
Framework Perspectives for Water: a small sample of the range of frameworks for addressing questions about water
Water is embedded in landscapes that are altered by both natural and human processes. The way we use and manage a water resource impacts its characteristics and these impacts can cascade to related systems — there is an ongoing conversation within the water community that continues to express that water researchers cannot afford to ignore the […]